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JB Priestley - An Inspector Calls

As the Birlings celebrate daughter Sheila’s engagement, an unexpected visitor sparks family turmoil. Stars Bob Peck.

The Birling Family - successful Northern industrialists - are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to the son of a rival business family, Gerald Croft.

Then Inspector Goole calls by with news of the suicide of a young woman in the infirmary.

As the drama unfolds, the Inspector weeds out information that implicates each of the party as being somehow connected with the girl and - to a greater or lesser extent - responsible for her death....

JB Priestley's modern morality stage play - first performed in 1945.

Starring Bob Peck, John Woodvine and Maggie Steed.

Dramatised by John Foley.

Inspector Goole …. Bob Peck
Arthur Birling …. John Woodvine
Sybill Birlling …. Maggie Steed
Sheila Birling …. Sara-Jane Holm
Gerald Croft …. David Antrobus
Edna …. Alison Pettitt

Director: Rosalynd Ward

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in August 1998.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Sun 11 Aug 202401:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Broadcasts

  • Sat 23 Feb 200812:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Sun 24 Feb 200801:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Sat 7 Feb 200912:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Sun 8 Feb 200901:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Sat 10 Aug 202406:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 10 Aug 202411:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 10 Aug 202417:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sun 11 Aug 202401:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra